In our worlds, feelings have a considerable part in human's life. Feelings are indicator of what people have in their minds. That's when they think something goes wrong, it can be understood, at this time there is a trouble in their faces. Like this, there are a number of feelings people have. However, undoubtedly the best one of them is happiness. It sounds very relaxing, even only this word said to people, it is a reason to smile. As it can be understood, happiness is a feeling which can make you the best and richest man in the world, or in other words, it makes you laugh. However, evaluation of happiness must be different from this. In order to define what really happiness is quality of a whole life is more proper because it requires complete life and complete virtue.

The first reason why happiness should be defined as a quality of whole life is necessity of a complete life.

Happiness mind-map

Happiness

English: Emotions associated with happiness

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